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Ecclesiastes 9:13-18

ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON Ecclesiastes 9:13 Wisdom can achieve much good and is worth pursuing. Yet its benefits can be undone by evil.

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See also Ecclesiastes 9:13-18 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Or, Also this have I seen - wisdom under the sun, and great it seemed to me. From this verse to the end of Ecclesiastes 10, the writer inculcates, in a series of proverbs, wisdom in contrast to folly...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    2. PRAISE OF WISDOM AND PHILOSOPHY, THEFINAL WORD AND THE GREAT CONCLUSION CHAPTER 9:13-18 Before he had declared that wisdom is strength. He comes back to this statement and gives an illustration o...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ECCLESIASTES 8:16 TO ECCLESIASTES 9:16. LIFE'S RIDDLE BAFFLES THE WISEST QUEST. The parenthesis in Ecclesiastes 8:16_ b_ describes the ceaseless effort of the keen student of life, or perhaps the fate

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _This wisdom have I seen also_ The DEBATER points the moral of his previous maxim by a special illustration and it can scarcely be doubted that it was one which his first readers would recognise, thou...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    6. Wisdom is declared to be the greatest guide in our work. Ecclesiastes 9:13-18 TEXT 9:13-18 13 Also this I came to see as wisdom under the sun, and it impressed me. 14 There was a small city wi...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: THIS WISDOM HAVE I SEEN - I have seen wisdom exhibited in the way described in what follows. IT (SEEMED) GREAT UNTO ME - inas...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    LIVE WORTHILY WHILE YOU MAY 1-3. The future is in God's hands. Good and bad alike must die....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 9 EVERYONE MUST DIE AT SOME TIME – ECCLESIASTES 9:1-10...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    גַּם ־זֹ֛ה רָאִ֥יתִי חָכְמָ֖ה תַּ֣חַת הַ שָּׁ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE CHIEF GOOD NOT TO BE FOUND IN WISDOM: Ecclesiastes 8:16; Ecclesiastes 9:1 1. The Preacher commences this section by carefully defining his position and equipment as he starts on his final course...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    NOR IN DEVOTION TO AFFAIRS AND ITS REWARDS. Ecclesiastes 9:13; Ecclesiastes 10:1 So far, then, Coheleth has been occupied in retracing the argument of the first Section of the Book. Now he returns up...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In view of the evidences of the truth of the affirmation, "vanity... all is vanity," the preacher now turns to its effect on the mind of the man living "under the sun." He extols this worldly wisdom,...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skil...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 12. The Book of Ecclesiastes is, up to a certain point, the converse of the Book of Proverbs. (see NOTE TO PROVERBS below) It is the experience of a...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THIS WISDOM HAVE I SEEN ALSO UNDER THE SUN,.... Or, "this also I have seen under the sun, even wisdom" h: besides those things he had, just now observed, he took notice that there was such a thing as...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it [seemed] great unto me: Ver. 13. _This wisdom also have I seen,_] _i.e., _ This fruit and effect of wisdom have I observed, that through the iniquit...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _This wisdom have I seen_ I have observed this among many other instances and effects of wisdom. Which he adds for the commendation of wisdom, notwithstanding its insufficiency for man's safety and ha...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    WISDOM STILL TO BE SOUGHT...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "ALSO THIS. CAME TO SEE AS WISDOM UNDER THE SUN, AND IT IMPRESSED ME." Solomon notes that he has an example of human wisdom that made. large impact on him. The following account demonstrates the temp...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    13-18 A man may, by his wisdom, bring to pass that which he could never do by his strength. If God be for us, who can be against us, or stand before us? Solomon observes the power of wisdom, though i...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THIS WISDOM HAVE I SEEN; I have observed this among many other instances and effects of wisdom; which he seems to add for the commendation of wisdom, notwithstanding its insufficiency for man's safety...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ecclesiastes 9:13 This H2090 wisdom H2451 seen H7200 (H8804) sun H8121 great H1419...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A PARABLE OF WISDOM AND INGRATITUDE (ECCLESIASTES 9:13). Ecclesiastes 9:13 ‘I have seen also wisdom under the sun like this. There was a small city and few men in it. And there came a great king agai...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    SAYINGS ABOUT THE WISE (ECCLESIASTES 9:11 TO ECCLESIASTES 10:12). His philosophy having come up with the fact that all a man has to look forward to is the life just described, the Preacher now recogni...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    CHAPTER 9 THE SAME THINGS HAPPEN TO ALL WHETHER THEY BE RIGHTEOUS, WISE OR SONS OF MEN. AND IN THE END ALL DIE IN THE SAME WAY. SO LET THE RIGHTEOUS LIVE LIFE AS THEY MAY AND ENJOY IT FOR GOD HAS ACCE...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Ecclesiastes 8:16-10 I. At the end of chap. viii. and the beginning of chap. ix., Koheleth points out that it is impossible for us to construct a satisfactory policy of life. "The work of God," or, as...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The universality of death and the need of minding the business of life and using wisdom. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: While there is life there is opportunity of preparing for dea...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Ecclesiastes 9:5. _The dead know not any thing._ This is explained by the next phrase, _the memory of them is forgotten._ Elijah went up to heaven, or paradise, as the Jews will have it. John 3:13. Si...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 9:13. THIS WISDOM.] The special instance of the power of wisdom related in the next verse. ECCLESIASTES 9:14. FEW MEN WITHIN IT.] Not a city with a scanty population, b...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 9:1 One fate happens to all, and the dead are cut off from all the feelings and interests of life in the upper world. ECCLESIASTES 9:1 This continues the subject treated abo...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knows either love or hatred by all that is before them...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ecclesiastes 6:1; Ecclesiastes 7:15; Ecclesiastes 8:16; Ecclesiastes 9:11...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    This wisdom — I have observed this among many other instances of wisdom. Which he adds for the commendation of wisdom, notwithstanding its insufficiency for man's happiness without God's blessing....

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